Stick With President Bush In November (Good Reasons NOT To Stay At Home) (My Title)

The most serious threat to President Bush's second term is not a Democrat; it is the growing mass of disenchanted Republicans who are accepting the proposition that there is little or no difference between the two major parties.

"Where are they going to go?" says a well-placed Bush operative. "You know they'll never vote for Dean or Kerry. And there's no Ross Perot on the horizon."

Where will they go? Nowhere. And that's the point. Republicans, especially the more conservative variety, are likely to stay home in droves. So far, the Republican strategists appear to be oblivious to this possibility.

Perhaps conservative Republicans expected too much too soon from a Republican administration. The Democrats had eight years to fill the agencies of government with activists from their special-interest groups. It is true that President Bush quickly dumped the most egregious of these types, whose positions are political plums. The underlings hired by the political appointees, however, are protected by civil-service regulations and cannot be fired, or even reassigned, without non-political justification.

The disappointment of conservatives goes much deeper and questions the fundamental philosophy which guides the administration. After eight years of watching the Clinton-Gore team march the United States directly into the jaws of a global socialist government, Bush supporters expected a screeching halt and a major course correction.

Conservatives cheered Bush's withdrawal from the Kyoto Protocol – a screeching halt and a major course correction – while socialists abroad and Democrats at home condemned the president.

When Bush defied the U.N. Security Council, and created a multi-national coalition to eliminate Saddam Hussein, conservatives split, some cheering the action, some joining the Democrats at home and socialists abroad who condemned the action.

The Patriot Act, the prescription drug program, the "guest worker" program, the so-called "free trade" programs and a half-trillion dollar deficit have left conservatives reeling, wondering why a Republican administration and Congress have produced results that look so much like what they would expect from a Democrat administration and Congress.

Consequently, many, many Republicans have thrown up their hands and have decided to either join some doomed third-party movement or simply stay home.

While this reaction may be understandable, it is not only self-defeating, it violates the first law of true believers: Never, never, never, never give up!

It is true that Republican hold the White House and a razor-thin majority in Congress. It is also true that the nation is divided, almost down the middle, between people who want to continue the Clinton-Gore path toward global socialist government and those who want to abandon that path and move the United States toward more individual freedom, free markets and voluntary cooperation among sovereign nations.

Rather than give up and stay at home, a better strategy may be for conservatives to realize that the election of President Bush in 2000, and securing a slim majority in Congress in 2002, is just the first step in a long journey. Conservatives should realize that it takes 60 senators to prevail over the Democrats' filibuster.

Rather than throw in the towel, conservatives might throw their effort into the campaigns of conservative candidates for the House and Senate, and for the state legislatures and county commissions.

The global socialist agenda moved into high gear after the fall of the Berlin Wall, aided dramatically by the progressive Democrats in the United States. The Bush election in 2000 disrupted that agenda, and to them, nothing is more important than removing the Bush obstacle. Conservatives who decide to give up and stay at home will be aiding and abetting the enemies of freedom.

A return to progressive Democrat leadership in the United States is a return to the Kyoto Protocol and U.N. control over energy use in the United States. It is a return to subservience to the United Nations – as Howard Dean says, to get "permission" from the U.N. before defending our nation. It is a return to total government control over land use, education and every other facet of life.

In 2000, conservatives barely got a foothold on the bridge of the ship of state. In 2002, conservatives began to get a grip on the wheel. In 2004, conservatives have an opportunity to bring on more hands and to permanently discharge some of the progressive Democrats who continue to fight desperately for control.

Democrats alone cannot regain control. If conservatives give up, throw in the towel and fail to show up for the November battle, the Democrats will win by default. Conservatives who truly believe that freedom is better than socialism, those who want freedom for their children rather than a world socialist government, will never, never, never, never give up. They will show up in November.

This is why I asked you why you bring this stuff here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1069214/posts?page=712#712

That post is Jim Robinson's. It is very clear on what the mission of Free Republic is.

You are campaigning for a democrat and it doesn't belong here.

Free discussion and sharing of ideas is one thing, but openly trying to recruit voters for a democrat is quite another.

Most of us are here because we strongly feel that this country needs another Bush term.

Terms like deceptive and violence that you included in your post are way out of bounds. They are not true and you know that.

You see, you may have perfectly reasonable things to say, but when you mix it with garbage like that, no one will care what you have to say.

If you can't get anyone to care, you can't accomplish anything.

This is a forum that has re-electing President Bush as it's mission.

I think that you are not as dead set against George W. Bush as you try to let on.

You just want your voice heard. I don't agree with everything that President Bush does either.

No one does, but posters like you that attempt to draw blood defeat your own purposes.

Please take a careful look at our options besides President Bush. Think back to the type of man George Bush has shown himself to be.

I will not forget what happened on 9/11 and the way this President rose to that challenge.

He has never forgotten his promise to us. He has put his entire presidency on the line to keep his promises. I will keep my faith in this President.

First, I do not agree that this forum is only about the reelection of GWB for if it was there would be little to say.

This forum was founded before GWB and it is about the maintenance of our Constitutional Republic, that is, our free Nation, FreeRepublic, get it? When any politician does damage to the only unified religious document we have by law, The Constitution of the US, and I use the concept of religion just as the religious believe in the Bible, that is, if one is a believer, one believes. For example, if one claims to be a Roman Catholic, can one be a RC if one doesn't believe in the presence of Mary, or the infallibility of the Pope? The answer is that they can still attend church but if examined they would not be truly religious as those who profess their Catholicism and vote pro-abortion.

Well, for those who profess their love of country but pick and choose which article and amendments of the Constitution they will support and uphold is an affront to the document and the nation. It is indeed doing violence to the nation just as invaders may intend to do. That is why in the oath of office the phrase, "protect and defend the constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic" is worded to allow consideration of all kinds of enemies, even those who lack the principle to stand up on election day to vote for those who will do as the oath requires or not to vote for those who have done damage to our only true national religion.

Please understand, I wish GWB didn't put me and others in this position, but he did, and unfortunately, history will not be kind to his legacy.

If this seems self-serving, so be it.

I warned and warned and warned leaders in the GOP, and my fellow FReepers, about the very things that are happening before our very eyes.

It still doesn't have to be fatal, but a full and robust recovery now for the Republican body politic will require some humility on the part of some of those same leaders.

And that thought is quite discouraging. They are as likely as not to use this as an opportunity to beat conservatives even more thoroughly, and worsen the problem...just as many here are busily doing the same.

Having said all of that, let me add: this article is a reminder why Henry Lamb has been one of my favorite people for a long time.

I would much rather have GWB in office than any Democrat. He needs to win the hearts and minds of the vast middle America suburban voter with 2 kids, an SUV, and a dog and cat. Right now with the looming deficit, uncertainity over troop deployments and any number of other concerns, the voters, at least going by the latest favoribility poll of yesterday, shows that voter confidence and favoribility are down for GWB and I suspect very few are reading these threads. I have other concerns however and we, if I can speak for others, are much more politically sophisticated to only consider what is on the evening network news or in the polls. What I detect is a precursor to the issues that voters eventually consider but in another form.

I will say that if the US is attacked again, that if we find other Nations targeting WMDs against us, that if OBL is running loose organizing terrorists, then GWB will be at his best and will run strong. But if it is about bringing troops home, good jobs, borders, deficits, health care, and his cabinet, then I think we are in for a long haul.

You have always been correct, I do desperately want GWB to succeed, but I liked him the way he ran in NH four years ago.

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